I asked this question some time ago and I got an exhaustive answer from Salbando.
I'll try to find it on the forum or in my notes.
Briefly it was something like "Most of the time they are not straped down".
OK found it:
| QUOTE: As far as securing pax on the bench. Beliave it or not it's a operator specific kind of thing. I'm sure there's SOP's regarding this, but I'm just telling you that when the rubber hits the road it's up to the operator. I can tell you what I've personnally done, and seen done by others. Usually for the trips out to the target area, we would set up a "beaner" and a securing strap or rope to our vest or webgear. We would simply hook into a bulkhead or some other section of the helo. When you got close to the target site, you would unhook from the helo and hold on till touchdown. |
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And this is the topic:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=2691&REPLY_ID=94114#94114